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Lyme Disease. Symptoms and Treatment Modes. Borreliosis

Posted by David on July 9th, 2009

Lyme Disease. Borreliosis

Well, what is Lyme disease and why does it have such an exotic name? The thing is it was first mentioned in the city of Lyme, a city in the USA, Connecticut.

Lyme disease or mite-born borreliosis (after the name of bacteria Borellia, spirochete type) is a disease caused by spirochetes and transmitted by the mites Ixodes dammini. More often the carriers of this disease are our domestic animals. The real tank of immature individuals Ixodes dammini is rats and mice.

As I’ve already said, Lyme disease is the transmission of the bacteria to a man through the bite of the infected Ixodic mites. The cases of the disease are more frequent in summer at a hot period of the season which, as a rule, favours the greater activity of the harmful mites.

In the majority of cases the area of the spreading of Lyme disease coincides with tick-borne encephalitis. The outbreaks of the borreliosis disease, despite the current opinion, are observed practically in all the regions of the Russian Federation.

What Are the Main Symptoms of Lyme Disease?

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The Symptoms and Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease

As a rule, it’s difficult to diagnose the bite of the harmful mite, because of its small size. It’s important to notice that the nidus is hot by touch and doesn’t disturb much.

The spectrum of the symptoms of Lyme disease is very widespread that makes its identification quite a difficult task. At an early stage of the disease you can observe weakness, tiredness, fever, headaches, migrating muscle pain, characteristic skin eruption, and vertigo. The more serious manifestations of Lyme disease are the affection of the nervous system, locomotive system and even heart!

Proceeding from the above-listed symptoms of Lyme disease, it’s seems to be a very serious disease, that’s why the earlier you identify the disease, the easier is the treatment.

Unfortunately, it often happens that in case when the borreliosis disease is totally neglected the disease assumes a chronic character, the people get facial paralysis, meningitis, and even become invalids. Besides, as side effects, Lyme disease is usually attended by the weakening of short-term memory, problems with the eyesight, and various mental derangements.

Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease

In the majority of cases, at early stages of the development of disease (mite-borne erythema, without fever and intoxication), on conditions that you resort to competent medical help, the symptoms of borreliosis can be eliminated by antibiotics and Doryx the choice, the doze and the duration of taking of which depend on the stage of disease, the prevailing clinical syndrome, the form and the severity.

Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease

Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease

As a rule, the incubative period lasts from 2 to 30 days. The sick with the medium form of Lyme disease undergo obligatory hospitalization to an infectious diseases hospital at any period of the disease. Some weeks after the beginning of the infection positive reaction in antibody ELISA test is observed among the majority of the patients.

For borreliosis attended by skin manifestations, the duration of the therapy, as a rule, is about 10 days and 20-30 days for disseminated infections.

Perhaps the most famous medicines for Lyme disease are doxycycline, Amoxicillin, intoxication of tetracycline, chloramphenicol, penicillin, chloramphenicol-succinite, and many other less famous, but not less effective antibiotics. In the average, all the people who had borreliosis undergo observation by a specialized clinic during 2 years.

In conclusion I’d like to remind you a very important thing. Lyme disease, as any other disease, by all means requires the interference of professional physicians!!! Forget the much talked-about folk and non-traditional treatment modes of this disease, as the wasted time can often do a lot of harm to you and to give you a lot of troubles and health problems.

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A/H1N1 Influenza Virus Has a Laboratorial Origin

Posted by David on July 6th, 2009

A/H1N1 Influenza virus, which has already stricken down 61 people and nearly six thousand people have been taken ill can have a laboratorial origin. Adrian Gibbs, an Australian scientist who studies the virus genome, has come to this conclusion. His point of view is corroborated by a strong strain mutation which is impossible under time in nature. On Thursday Belgium joined the list of the countries where A/H1N1 was registered.

The escape of influenza A/H1N1 virus from the laboratory is one of the most probable causes of its spread on the territory of North America, according to Adrian Gibbs, the virologist from Canberra State University.

“The assumption that the virus has been evolved in vitro as a result of an unintentional mistake of the staff is the simplest explanation”.

According to the researcher, the version of the laboratorial origin of the influenza virus is corroborated by the evident differences of its genomes from those of renowned Swine influenza viruses circulating in nature. According to the results of the research work conducted, the number of the mutations revealed in new A/H1N1 virus is three-four times over than that of similar strains.

“To collect such a great number of genetic differences the virus should have been circulated in nature for some years, though till this April it hasn’t been met by virologists, Adrian Gibbs said. – So the assumption that the new virus has been evolved in vitro in some virology laboratory as a result of a unintentional mistake of the staff is the simplest explanation to this”.

According to the scientist, he is now editing some new material about possible origin of A/H1N1 influenza virus and is sure that it’ll provoke vigorous debate in the scientific community as other existing hypothesis did.

“The quicker we sort out the question, the earlier we can protect the humankind against the pandemic”, the A/H1N1 Virus researcher from the southern hemisphere pointed out.

At the same time in the northern hemisphere, according to the data presented by the WHO, among the six countries – the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization only in Russia and Сhina it is possible to make the right diagnosis about the presence of influenza A/H1N1 in the samples of sick men, the BBC reports to quote the GM of State Centre of Virology and biotechnology James Brown.

“Unfortunately, today the WHO is proclaiming only two states of the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – China and Russia. These two states are acknowledged today to be able to perform the proper analysis to find out H1N1 influenza in the samples of sick men and people who died of flu”, Brown says.

According to him, it’s principally important for Russia that other countries, the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, could do this.

“It’s generally known that is maintaining the projects on the official qualifying of the leading laboratories of the world on their readiness to make the right diagnosis, on their readiness to prognosticate the course of epidemic in separate national states. It is principally important for us that all the countries of the region succeed in this”, the scientist say.AH1N1 protectionAH1N1 protection

On Thursday Belgium joined the blackhole list of the countries where sick men having Swine influenza were registered, and the authorities of the country affirmed the first case of А/H1N1 infection, Reuters reports.

As of Wednesday the WHO admitted 5,728 cases of A/H1N1infection in 33 states, including 61 cases with lethal outcome.

Thus, in Mexico 56 cases with lethal outcome are confirmed, three cases in the USA, one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. The cases of disease are confirmed in Argentina, Australia, Brasil, China, Columbia, Denmark, Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Great Britain.

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In France Scientists Have Almost Invented the Medicine against Cancer

Posted by David on June 30th, 2009

In France scientists have almost invented against cancer – a molecule blocking the reproduction of cancer cells.

The group of scientists under the guidance of CNRS synthesized in vitro a molecule which can block the reproduction of cancer cells and prevent the forming of vessels providing them with nutrients. The specialized “Plos One” magazine tells about this in the last issue, CNN reports.

According to the assessments of experts, the new preparation preliminary named HB-19, offers a wide challenge for curing oncological diseases. Besides, the derived medicine is deprived of the main side effect of the majority of modern anticancer preparations, which substantially worsen the treatment prognosis – toxicity, as it is said in the scientific report.

As it is noted by Ara Hovanessyan, one of the heads of the research, at the moment the effectiveness of the preparation is tested on mice and the culture of tissues taken from people suffering from prostate, mammary, intestine and skin tumour.

Another head of the project, the director of CNRS of study, Jose Cartie derived molecule has a destructive impact on the protein elementing the cancer molecule inhibiting its reproduction.

The scientist explains that one more mechanism of the molecule impact on a malignant formation is the oppression of angiogenesis, i.e. the formation of the vessels of cancer cells, which leads to oxygen and nutrients impoverishment and, as the result, to its destruction.

The researches are sure that the double effect of the experimental molecule makes it indispensable for treatment principle oncological diseases, and the offered methodology of synthesis allows to start the mass production of the preparation without peculiar problems.

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The Hormone of Strain is Amenable to Control

Posted by David on June 27th, 2009

Due to the effort of scientists hydrocortisone is known to us as the hormone, taking part in the regulation of carbohydrate, protein, and adipose metabolism in the organism, blood pressure and immune system work under a great strain. Although the state of constant and lingering stress can provoke the excessive output of this hormone that results in the fact that hydrocortisone is able to cause sleep disturbance, make us more subject to infections, provoke the increase of blood sugar and lead to uncontrolled gaining weight.

In Sean Talbot’s article in the recent issue of “Prevention” magazine the methods of controlling hydrocortisone level were described.

Moreover, these methods can fully realized in practice on minimum conditions. Some simple methods, such as a cup of black tea, laughter, good music, meditation and healthy sleep, help to prevent stress conditions and excessive output of hydrocortisone.

Sean Talbot based his findings on the data got during the research work. Thus, when the volunteers were given a difficult task, during an hour the level of hydrocortisone was 47% down among those who had drunk black tea and only 27% down among those who hadn’t. Among those who had watched a funny film the level of strain hormone lowered by about a half. Music, which was heard in the background in the stress condition, produced analogous calming and stimulating effect.

Besides, the researcher emphasized that the level of hydrocortisone and blood pressure lowered among those who had undergone the course of Thai meditation. The author advises to pay special attention to sleep regimen – the difference in the level of the hormone considered is 50 % among those who sleep 6 and 8 hours a day! So, if you haven’t managed to go to bed in time, you should have a nap in the afternoon in order not to expose your health to unnecessary risk.

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Chewing gum with insulin is invented in America

Posted by David on June 24th, 2009

Robert Doyle, a chemist from Syracuse University (New York), has invented chewing gum with insulin.
This invention was applied for to the WIPO.

The number of diabetes diseased in the world is such that the specialists speak of the epidemic. All these diseased get insulin by means of injections. There’s existed no other effective ways to deliver this kind of hormone of peptide nature to blood flow till this time. Though in 2006 insulin inhaler appeared in the American market, it was taken out from production because of its unprofitability.

Many diabetics would like to get insulin in tablets, though the research work of many years has shown that the digestive system easily destroys this hormone, and the unhurt insulin cells penetrate into blood with much ado.

Fortunately, Robert Doyle has found the way to deliver insulin, which will make the life of diabetes diseased much easier. The scientist noticed that the organism has a specific mechanism of protection and absorption of the molecules of nutrients, which are usually damaged in the digestive tract. E.g. vitamin B12 gets combined with salivary protein haptocorrine in the mouth, due to which it remains whole in the stomach. As soon as haptocorrine gets to the intestine, other chemicals start working; this helps vitamin B12 to penetrate into the blood flow.

Doyle offers to tie insulin molecules with vitamin B12, which will trail the hormone to the circulatory system. The experiment on rats has shown that the scheme works perfectly. The rats got the new medicine in liquid state, but for a man the best way to get the hormone will be to chew the insulin.

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New evidence ties Gene to ALZHEIMER’S

Posted by David on June 7th, 2009

Sufficient number of candidates potentially included in increasing a person’s risk for the most general category of Alzheimer’s illness which has an effect upon more than 5 million Americans over the age of 65, one gene which preserves grabbing Johns Hopkins researchers’ attitude makes a protein which is named neuroglobin.

Additionally to a increasing body of evidence about a crucial importance of this protein for the health of the aging brain, research workers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine considered the genetic neighborhood of neuroglobin as well as, for the first time in a human population, connected variety with a risk for Alzheimer’s.

A little genetic variation between different people may influence the amounts of certain proteins that each particular gene eventually produces. In this case, the team has explored those human individuals with genetic variations levelling to less neuroglobin making have a enhanced risk for Alzheimer’s.

“It is of importance to mention that a fascinating part of this research lies in quite high levels of neuroglobin which was found in the Alzheimer’s brain, it was entirely the contrary as compared to the prior expectations,” Dimitrios Avramopoulos mentioned, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in Hopkins’ working Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry.

Talking about the data published in Neurobiology of Aging, Avramopoulos has given an in – depth coverage to the matter, stating that his team counted levels of gene production in 56 different patterns of brain tissue of the individuals: 30 from approved cases of Alzheimer’s and 26 of those who did not have brain disease.

The research workers also found that neuroglobin levels reduced with enhancing age, which, Avramopoulos indicates it compatible with risk of Alzheimer’s enhancing with advancing age. The research team also established that levels of neuroglobin were sufficiently lower in women than in men, which is compatible with the factor that women are provided with a considerably higher risk of Alzheimer’s.

Almost twice as many patients in the population as general with Alzheimer’s are women which certainly can be imputable to the factor that women generally live longer thus having more of a possible chance to get Alzheimer’s. With the correction for that inequality, research group have established that a slightly higher risk exists in women than in men.

They were rather surprised to explore that neuroglobin levels have shown to be much higher in the brain tissue from Alzheimer’s patients as compared with those from control group.

Counter-intuitive from the first sight, it certainly makes sense, due to Avramopoulos, in particular in light of preliminary published researches which demonstrated that a protective purpose for neuroglobin and explored that mouse brains react to stress in this case, a lack of oxygen via neuroglobin production.

In the more general sense scientists have established that neuroglobin production also causes an increase in reaction to the outrage of the Alzheimer’s disease.

They generate a hypothesis that there a number of people in which protective responses are note enough to form an effective defence for the brain.

“The more we grow, the less neuroglobin this specific gene produces in our brains unless there appears a particular factor which will stimulate the genet to a more production,” as Avramopoulos reports.

“The factors may involve stressors like a deficiency of oxygen which serves as a result from stoke or emphysema. The matter is compatible to be Alzheimer’s disease.

“Further actions on this gene will be liable to provide intervention objectives for a sufficient number of very general conditions involving Alzheimer’s.”

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AH1N1 flu! Find the best protection!

Posted by David on May 28th, 2009

Today the most outstanding problematic medical point refers to epidemy of AH1N1 flu.
This obliges us to touch this topic and hold a discussion on our medical portal. The aim of this article lies in its prophylactic and preventive nature of the above – mentioned disease. The outbreak of the a/h1n1 pandemic virus leads us to Mexico.

Today almost each newspaper reports that AH1N1 flu in Mexico, which has caused deaths to more than hundred people, can be treated as having pandemic nature. People got used to intimidating each other with wars, apocalypse as well as something yet unknown. They still forget that diseases stand as one of the most savage and sometimes deadly weapon.

In 1855 a well known “third pandemia ” caused deaths to more than twelve million people in India, China. It is a real scare to imagine how many millions of deaths have been ever caused by AIDS?

These horrific statistics speaks out of a certain measures to be taken in the direction of diseases, this should make the people treat them as problems of primary importance. Yet it is of a crucial importance that each of us should start with himself.

Nowadays the information about AH1N1 flu reports that this dangerous virus derives from genetic material of birds, pigs, and people. Today we sometimes have to face the official materials which report that yet we do not have vaccine against AH1N1.
It means one very important thing – we should be critically attentive to find the highest possible protections against this virus not yet examined and studied. Thus you can use Tamiflu and Relenza which will bring much improvement to your current condition. Use Tamiflu and Relenza also as preventive security measures.

Are there any other protective measures to be taken to prevent AH1N1 flu? First measure to follow is to close your mouth by means of handkerchief when coughing or sneezing, прикрывайте рот платком, which should be necessarily thrown away afterwards. Please make sure to wash your hands regularly and carefully. If you feel seek consult your health care provider immediately. Do not allow close contact with sick people.

An interesting fact – in Mexico even handshake was prohibited. And please do not thing that mask can stand as substitution for all security measures.
It is of a crucial importance to understand that to prevent the disease is much easier than to cure it. This is more applicable to the cases when we have to deal with types of dangerous diseases, which have not been studied as of yet.

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